Supernatural: Series 1
- Synopsis
- A follow-up to the SUPERSENSE series. Combining state-of-the-art filming techniques including time-lapse phorography with the latest research into animal senses, SUPERNATURAL unravels the extrasensory feats and near paranormal powers of animals. Episodes such as ‘Time Warp’ shows how time stretches depending on the animal’s perception while ‘The Paranormal’ reveals lizards that can walk on water and fish that practice telepathy.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Year of release
- 2006
- Year of production
- 1998
- Notes
- Broadcast in 6 weekly parts on BBC1 beginning 30/3/1999
- Subjects
- Biology; Psychology
- Keywords
- animal behaviour; animal communication; sensory perception; time-lapse photography
Credits
- Director
- John Downer
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 2 PAL
- Price
- £19.99
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 203 minutes
- Year
- 2006
Sections
- Title
- Extrasensory Perception
- Synopsis
- This first programme looks at animals and plants that possess senses more powerful than humans’. Includes how sharks perceive electromagnetic radiation given off by humans, and how dolphins use ultrasound to scan their world. Shows cotton plants summoning wasps to defend them from caterpillars and hippo sounds that can be hear 20 miles away.
- Duration
- 30 mins
- Title
- Outer Limits
- Synopsis
- This programme looks at amazing feats of endurance, including geese that can withstand the high-altitude cold, the fairy shrimp egg that can survive boiling, and the thermal imaging of the polar bear and the human.
- Duration
- 30 mins
- Title
- Hidden Forces
- Synopsis
- The relationship of animals and plants to the invisible world of electricity, magnetism and electromagnetic forces.
- Duration
- 30 mins
- Title
- Timewarp
- Synopsis
- How certain animals are able to speed up or slow down their metabolism and their perception of time, featuring the sloth and the hummingbird.
- Duration
- 30 mins
- Title
- Paranormal
- Synopsis
- Creatures performing bizarre and seeming miraculous acts: a lizard that ‘walks’ on water, monkeys that eat charcoal to cure stomach upsets, pyromaniac jackdaws and crows with a fascination for cigarettes, and pigeons, chickens and alligators that can be hypnotised.
- Duration
- 30 mins
- Title
- Close Encounters
- Synopsis
- Human encounters with animal power - a man who strokes sharks, and one who claims to understand bee language, covering himself in a swarm and living through it; fish in a spa in Turkey that apparently cure psoriasis; healing properties from dolphins’ ultrasound emissions.
- Duration
- 30 mins
Production Company
- Name
BBC Television
Distributor
- Name
BBC Shop
- bbcshop@bbc.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.bbcshop.com External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 0844 848 9799
- Fax
- 01795 414 555
- Address
- PO Box 308
Sittingbourne
ME9 8LW - Notes
- The BBC Shop closed on March 29th 2016. It was replaced by the BBC Store (www.bbcstore.com) where many BBC programmes can be bought and downloaded in digital format only. The BBC continues to make many of its programmes available on DVD and Blu-Ray but these are now only available from other online retailers.
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